The saga continues. R&B star Frank Ocean, author of a widely criticized performance on Sunday at Coachella, has canceled his other concert scheduled for the second weekend of the Californian festival, citing a leg injury, his agent announced on Wednesday. The singer, who had not been on stage since 2017, was injured last week according to his representative.
His highly anticipated Sunday performance in the California desert started an hour late and was widely criticized by the public and the music press. “After injuring his leg at the festival site in the week leading up to the first weekend…Frank Ocean was unable to perform the scheduled concert, but he still intended to do so, and in the 72 hours, the concert was rearranged out of necessity,” Frank Ocean’s agent told AFP.
The singer suffers “from two fractures and a sprain in the left leg”, he specified, and preferred to cancel his next concert scheduled for Sunday for the closing evening of Coachella, “on the advice of a doctor “.
A dismantled ice rink?
During the first weekend of the festival, Frank Ocean turned his back on the crowd to perform his title “Novacane”, and took extended breaks between certain songs. The scenography, redesigned at the last moment, also caused confusion among the spectators. In their podcast Empty Netterstwo former hockey players claim that the singer was supposed to be surrounded by 200 skaters but that he changed his mind at the last minute, and that the organization of the festival had to dismantle the ice rink in an emergency, which caused a almost an hour late.
As a result, Frank Ocean’s concert ended abruptly: “I’m told it’s curfew. It’s the end of the show, thank you all. Some fans believed a joke before leaving in anger.
“Almost disastrous concert”
The American magazine variety deemed the concert “messy, disjointed and almost disastrous”. According to the headline, the event “will likely go down as one of the most controversial in Coachella history.”
“It was chaotic. There is a certain beauty in chaos, ”reacted Frank Ocean, in a press release sent by his agent on Wednesday. “Not what I intended to show, but I enjoyed being there and will see you again soon. »
In the program, Blink-182 appears to have replaced the lead singer for the closing of Coachella on Sunday. The pop-punk band surprised their fans last weekend, returning to the stage with their original lineup for the first time in nearly a decade. Announced at the last moment, this performance was initially not planned in the festival program. Asked by AFP, the Coachella organization did not respond immediately.